Quote:Christianity especially is steeped in the philosophical thinking associated with the Greeks. I think you are right in terms of Zoroastrianism being the first monotheistic religion in the narrow sense (the common ancestor) but the philosophical underpinnings of Christianity and Islam are firmly Greek.
I don't think it is quite that cut and dried, M/M. Alexander the Great overran the Persian ( Zoroastrian) Empire by 331 but prior to that the Persians had controlled an empire which incorporated many Greek city states in what is now Turkey as well as various Aegean islands. Ideas flowed along the trade routes, too.
The Greeks defeated the Persians in 479 BC at Plataea ending the invasion and warfare continued for another 30 years between Athens' Delian League and Persia. But other Greek states were not involved and contacts with Persia and the Greek states in the Persian sphere revived. It was another hundred years before Alexander began his attack. People can learn a lot in 100 years.
P.S. Xtians hate it when you suggest that their godboy was not an original thinker.
But, you're right.
Fuck them.
